Bridge For Design Summer 2014 Bridge For Design Summer 2014 Issue | Page 141

TOP: This entrance contains a series of seventeenth-century Dutch colour images of
New Guinea coast line. Below them stand two Moroccan lanterns
LEFT: An over-scale limestone hearth dominates the sitting room, together with a
Spanish stud-lined leather trunk

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ward-winning interior designer, Thomas Hamel, has called
Australia home for the last 25 years but he grew up surrounded
by the Colonial houses of Virginia in the US.
He says that he always knew that he wanted to be a designer

“I took a tiny bookcase, removed the doors and carefully wallpapered
each division to create a series of room. There was a library with porticoes
He now has one of the largest interior design practices in Australia,
Thomas Hamel and Associates designing interiors for clients from Sydney
to Palm Beach.

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